Retrieving Data From BLS Text File Database

Using get_bls_data() from {econanalyzr} package.

Introduction

This vignette describes the use of the get_bls_data() function. This is a wrapper around [httr2::request()] from the httr2 package that also prompts you to supply a valid email address in the user-agent HTTPS header as is now required by the BLS per their terms of use.

library(econanalyzr)

Retrieving data

A valid URL to a BLS flat/text file database must be supplied as well as a valid email to retrieve data. This example uses data from the BLS Current Employment Statistics

valid_email <- "you@example.com"
# Link to employment data for the Government sector
bls_url <- "https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ce/ce.data.90a.Government.Employment" 

df <- get_bls_data(
  bls_url = bls_url,
  email = valid_email
)